‘At Massimo’s funeral, his film double walked behind the coffin in homage – and all the Neapolitans thought it was his ghost’Massimo Troisi was a huge star in Italy.
He loved a film I’d made called Another Time, Another Place, about Italian PoWs in Scotland.
We looked at various projects to do together, and he’d bought the rights to this Chilean novel called Burning Patience, about the death of Pablo Neruda and his friendship with a 17-year-old fisherman.
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